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Summary: For the Do-It-Yourselfer
Review: I was a bartender for two years and learned more from on-the-job training than this book. I realize not everyone can become a bartender and learn the tools, skills, drinks, and techiques that way. So buying this book may help you out, but may not.
Half of the book has bar recipes, but you can easily find those on the internet. On the other hand, they are all conglomerately there and easy to flip through. Foley does spend some time on the history of the "well liquors" and that's kind of neat to know about that.
My recommedation: buy it if you're starting your own bar, but wait until the price drops. Don't if you've worked in or around a bar. Take it from an expert...
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Summary: The essential for any home bar in the world!
Review: Is one of the best cocktail books around. Whit a lot of recipies, both of alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks. If you wanna be the attraction in a party, read it, study it, practice it!!!!!!!
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Summary: Very informative.
Review: It describes the different things you need for your own bar at home plus hundreds of different recipes that you can use. I would definitly recommend this for those who want to gain more knowledge or who are perhaps wanting to gain enough knowledge to entertain the bartending field.
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Summary: So you want to know how to mix drinks.
Review: Many books out there can help you mix a drink, but Bartending For Dummies not only shows you how to make drinks, but how to stock your bar, what glasses to use and even a little trivia about some drinks. The contents are laid out in an easy to use format, and any "technical" bartending speak is explained to you. Dont get this book if you are expecting tons and tons of drink mixes, it just isnt there but it makes up for it by giving you all the practical information you need to get going!
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Summary: Ray Foley is the Bartender's BARTENDER for everyone!
Review: Ray Foley is one of my favorite writers on bartending and cocktail recipes! Foley is fun! His books are always easy to read and understand... You do not have to be a professional bartender to follow this book, nor do you have to be a Dummy! I look forward to his next book! Cheers!
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Summary: Bartending for Dummies
Review: The actual Bartending for Dummies is a great book, but this is the mini book version, although Amazon does not say so. It doesn't have as many recipes or information. That's why it's so inexpensive.
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Summary: very weak for a newbie...
Review: The book fails to discuss typical bar lingo that the author himself uses! For example "neat" , he doesnt even tell the want to be bartender what an "up" drink means! The book is 90% recepies , go to Walgreens and buy the "Black Book" it has awesome recepies. I was really expecting a book that dealt with lingo, do and dont's, tip and tricks but all the book really consists of is recpies.
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Summary: Bartending For Dummies
Review: The book is very simple and basic. Not detailed in any way.
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Summary: Decent, but dissapointed.
Review: There are a number of cocktail recipes in this book.But the introductory sections on bartending basics and
equipment leave me dissapointed.
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Summary: A bit too general and did not realize it was mini edition.
Review: There were parts of this book that were very imformative and well researched. However, as a professional bartender and author, I feel there were a lot of mistakes he made in writing his book.
A lot of the recipes given were incorrect. Certain drinks like an Old-fashioned, and a Sex on the Beach should not be wrong. Also, I noticed that he had ten or fifteen drinks featuring Absolut Vodka. Absolut Vodka is a very low-rated vodka, and should never be involved in a recipe for a good drink. Crystal Palace or 5 o'clock vodka would have sufficed just fine.
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